[nzlug] Acer/DSE option

Simon Bridge simonbridge at ihug.co.nz
Fri Apr 25 18:14:15 NZST 2008


On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 16:59 +1200, Robin wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Simon Bridge wrote:
> > I have 4gig of swap (and 1gig RAM), that should be enough for swap,
> > right? (OTOH: Acer did 4.2gig for 0.5gig RAM - maybe I should go to 8gig
> > swap?)
> 
> Unless you have a specific need for that much swap, I'd say more like ~1Gb 
> would be quite sufficient. Even 4Gb is really quite large for the expected 
> usage of that machine.
> 
And I'm utterly off-track anyway. Swap is used to *hibernate* - it's
suspend to RAM that's broken.

Anyone know what I should look out for (and I know about the bug report,
thanks).




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